Now he's a martyr, writes Geoffrey Robertson
(NEWSER) - American glee over the death of the "Wicked Witch of the East" is understandable, but unattractive to many in the rest of the world, writes Geoffrey Robertson in the Daily Beast . It would have been so much better to skip the apparent "cold-blooded assassination" of the unarmed terror master and instead have brought Osama bin Laden to court and "rob him of his martyrdom," he adds. President Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, knows the "absurdity of his statement that 'justice was done,'" writes Robertson. "Real justice" with an arrest, trial and sentence would have been difficult, but "should it not at least have been attempted?" he asks. More»
